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Configuring
Use this information to configure your network, users, servers (including Web servers), directory services, security, messaging, widgets and live text, and server clusters.
Configuring users and servers
Topics in this section describe how to set up users and servers.
Configuring directory services
This section describes how to plan, set up, and use HCL Domino® directory services.
The LDAP service
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is a standard Internet protocol for searching and managing entries in a directory, where an entry has one or more attributes associated with a distinguished name. A distinguished name -- for example, cn=Phyllis Spera,ou=Sales,ou=East,o=Renovations -- is a name that identifies an entry within a directory tree.
How the LDAP service works
When the LDAP task is running on a server, the server can listen for and process LDAP client requests. By default, the LDAP task runs automatically on the administration server for the Domino® Directory. The schema daemon spawned by the LDAP task on the administration server uses the Domino LDAP Schema database to propagate schema changes to any other servers in the domain that run the LDAP service. The LDAP task on the administration server for the LDAP service domain Domino Directory also verifies the directory tree to ensure the LDAP service complies with the standard LDAP requirement that each part of a distinguished name has an entry in the directory that represents the name part as an object class.
How the LDAP service forms a value for the mail attribute
The LDAP service forms a value for the mail attribute by searching for information in a number of places.

Configuring
Use this information to configure your network, users, servers (including Web servers), directory services, security, messaging, widgets and live text, and server clusters.
- Configuring a network
  This section presents the planning concepts and setup procedures necessary for a successful HCL Domino® deployment over a network. It provides information on network protocols from a Domino perspective but does not attempt to provide general network information.
- Configuring users and servers
  Topics in this section describe how to set up users and servers.
  - Understanding the Server document
    The Server document is set up when you register a server. It contains many of the settings that define how your server operates.
  - Policies
    Use Domino® policy settings to control how users work with Notes®. A policy is a document that identifies a collection of individual policy settings. Policy settings documents define a set of defaults that apply to the users and groups to which the policy is assigned. You can change policy settings and they will be automatically applied to the assigned users and groups.
  - Defining default settings for Notes® user registration
    Before you register new Notes® users, you can specify default settings that apply to all users. Default settings simplify user registration and ensure user settings consistency. You can define many default settings, such as what mail server users have or what certifier ID to use for user registration. You can also specify a default workstation execution control list (ECL) to protect data from unauthorized workstation access.
  - Using groups
    Groups are lists of users, groups, and servers that have common traits. They are useful for mailing lists and access control lists. Using groups can simplify administration tasks.
  - Replicas
    You can make a database available to users in different locations, on different networks, or in different time zones, by creating replicas of the database.
  - Calendars and scheduling
    The calendar and scheduling features allow users to check the free time of other users, schedule meetings with them, and reserve resources, such as conference rooms and equipment.
  - Editing the notes.ini file
    The Domino and Notes notes.ini files contain the settings required for the server and client to operate correctly. If you modify or add settings in a notes.ini file, do so cautiously and never edit the file directly with a text editor.
  - Configuring directory services
    This section describes how to plan, set up, and use HCL Domino® directory services.
    - The Domino® Directory
      The Domino® Directory, which some previous releases referred to as the Public Address Book or Name and Address Book, is a database that Domino creates automatically on every server. The Domino Directory is a directory of information about users, servers, and groups, as well as custom entries you may add. Registering users and servers in a domain automatically creates corresponding Person documents and Server documents in the Domino Directory for the domain. These documents contain detailed information about each user and server.
    - The LDAP service
      Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is a standard Internet protocol for searching and managing entries in a directory, where an entry has one or more attributes associated with a distinguished name. A distinguished name -- for example, cn=Phyllis Spera,ou=Sales,ou=East,o=Renovations -- is a name that identifies an entry within a directory tree.
      - How the LDAP service works
        When the LDAP task is running on a server, the server can listen for and process LDAP client requests. By default, the LDAP task runs automatically on the administration server for the Domino® Directory. The schema daemon spawned by the LDAP task on the administration server uses the Domino LDAP Schema database to propagate schema changes to any other servers in the domain that run the LDAP service. The LDAP task on the administration server for the LDAP service domain Domino Directory also verifies the directory tree to ensure the LDAP service complies with the standard LDAP requirement that each part of a distinguished name has an entry in the directory that represents the name part as an object class.
        The LDAP service and directory tree verification
        When the LDAP service starts on the server that is the administration server for the primary Domino® Directory, it displays certain messages at the server console. These messages indicate that the LDAP service is verifying that each part of a Notes-style distinguished name in a document in the directory has a separate document to define the name part. If the LDAP service detects that a part of a name is missing such a corresponding document, it creates one in a hidden view. Creating an additional document in this way ensures that LDAP clients can always use subtree searches to find the original document.
        How the LDAP service forms a value for the mail attribute
        The LDAP service forms a value for the mail attribute by searching for information in a number of places.
        The LDAP service and secondary directories
        You can set up directory assistance on a server that runs the LDAP service.
      - Setting up the LDAP service
        Before you set up the LDAP service, make sure you understand TCP/IP concepts, including DNS host names and IP addressing.
      - Starting and stopping the LDAP service
        You can start and stop the LDAP service automatically or by using commands at the server console.
      - Customizing the LDAP service configuration
        The default LDAP service configuration works without modification, but you can customize it to suit your needs. The following table describes the LDAP service configuration settings. In addition to the settings in the table, there are NOTES.INI settings you can use to configure the LDAP service.
      - Setting up clients to use the LDAP service
        You can set up both non-Notes clients and Notes® clients to use the LDAP service running on a specific server.
      - Using LDAP to search a Domain index
        If the LDAP service is running on a server that stores a Domain Index, you can develop an LDAP application to search the Domain Index for all documents that contain a specific text string and then return specific attributes of these documents.
      - Monitoring the LDAP service
        You can show the current LDAP service configuration settings, as well as show statistics related to LDAP service port activity.
      - RFCs supported by the LDAP service
        The Domino® LDAP service supports the RFCs described in the following table.
    - LDAP schema
      A directory entry contains information about a particular entity, or object -- for example, a person or a group -- and is associated with a distinguished name. An LDAP schema is a set of rules that define what can be stored as entries in an LDAP directory. Each LDAP directory has a default schema, which organizations can customize, or "extend," by adding elements to it. The elements of a schema are attributes, syntaxes, and object classes. LDAP directory servers provide the ability to enforce the schema to ensure that directory changes made using LDAP operations conform to it.
    - ldapsearch utility
      Domino® and Notes® provide a command-line search utility, LDAPSEARCH.EXE, that you use to search entries in any LDAP directory. The ldapsearch utility connects to a directory server and returns results that match search criteria you specify. It is available on Domino server and Notes client platforms.
    - Directory assistance
      Directory assistance allows a server to look up information in a directory other than a local primary Domino® Directory (NAMES.NSF).
    - Directory Sync
      Directory Sync allows you to sync people and group data from an external LDAP directory into the Domino® directory. Currently data from Active Directory can be synced.
    - Directory catalogs
      A directory catalog is an optional directory database that typically contains information aggregated from multiple Domino® directories. Clients and servers can use a directory catalog to look up mail addresses and other information about the people, groups, mail-in databases, and resources throughout an organization, regardless of the number of Domino domains and Domino Directories the organization uses.
    - Extended ACL
      An extended access control list (ACL) is an optional directory access-control feature available for a directory created from the PUBNAMES.NTF template -- a Domino® Directory or an extended directory catalog. An extended ACL is tied to the database ACL, and you access it through the Access Control List dialog box using a Notes® or Domino Administrator client.
    - Setting up Domino® Active Directory synchronization (Deprecated)
      When the Domino® server is installed on a Microsoft™ Windows™ 2003 server, as an administrator, you typically need to maintain two separate directories for the same set of people and groups. Maintaining user and group information involves adding entries to both directories, deleting entries, ensuring that passwords are the same when users use Notes® Single Logon, coordinating group membership in both directories, and ensuring that user or group settings, such as email addresses and telephone numbers, are identical.
  - Configuring messaging
    This section provides an overview of messaging and describes how to set up mail routing, how to set up and customize mail servers, and how to track mail.
  - Configuring iNotes®
    HCL iNotes® provides HCL Notes® users with browser-based access to Notes mail and to Notes calendar and scheduling features. Administrators specify mail policy and security policy settings as well as notes.ini file settings to complete the full implementation of HCL iNotes.
  - Configuring Web servers
    This section describes how to set up the HCL Domino® Web server, and the Domino Web Navigator.
  - Setting up a cluster
    Setting up a cluster includes the tasks of creating and verifying that it is working correctly, and then setting up user access, mail, replications, size quotas, directory assistance, roaming, web navigation, and use of a private LAN in the cluster.
  - Configuring Widgets and Live Text
    Widgets and Live Text enables end users to see and act on Live Text in supported documents, including HCL Notes® mail, using XML extensions (widgets) created specifically for their use.
  - Domain Search
    Notes® client and Web users can use Domain Search to search an entire Domino® domain for database documents, files, and attachments that match a search query.

How the LDAP service forms a value for the mail attribute

The LDAP service forms a value for the mail attribute by searching for information in a number of places.

To return a value for the mail attribute for a Person, Group, Mail-In Database, or Resource document, the LDAP service searches for the following:

A fully formed Internet address in one of these fields, in the order indicated:
1. Internet Address (InternetAddress)
2. Short Name (ShortName) -- If the Internet Address Lookup field on Conversions tab of a Global Domain document is disabled, the LDAP service does not look for a short name.
3. Forwarding address (MailAddress) -- Forwarding address is the label for this field for Notes® mail users, but the label is different if another mail system is specified for a user.
Address conversion rules specified in SMTP Address Conversion section on the Conversions tab of a Global Domain document.
Note: If your organization uses more than one Global Domain document, the LDAP service refers to the conversion rules specified in the default document as designated by the Use as default Global Domain field on the Basics tab.
A DNS domain name retrieved from the operating system of the machine on which the LDAP service runs. The syntax is:
```
user's hierarchical name%notesdomain@hostname
```
For example, Samantha Daryn/Marketing/East/Renovations%Renovations@renovations.com

Note: If an extended ACL denies an LDAP service access to the LDAP mail attribute or the corresponding Domino® InternetAdress field, the LDAP service cannot complete the preceding process and is unable to return a value for the mail attribute.